From the cover: “For eleven years this country has been engaged in a war- a war against the Communist terrorists, the ‘CTs’, of Malaya. And though it is a war in which by now the enemy is contained and trapped, it is not yet over; the CTs are still a determined and active force, a hard-core army of fanatics who are fighting for survival with the cunning of cornered vermin. Like all wars which are limited in scope, go on for a long time, and happen far away, the war in Malaya has gradually faded from the newspapers, the wireless bulletins, the magazines. It is all too easy to forget that at this very moment, over thousands of square miles of jungle, British soldiers are in action – for although Malaya is an independent country, British and British-led soldiers, at the invitation of its Government, are still fighting there alongside their Malayan comrades.

Richard Miers — Brigadier R. C. H. Miers, D. S. O. and Bar, O. B. E. — is a born soldier who is a born writer. In Malaya he commanded the 1st Battalion of the South Wales Borderers with conspicuous gallantry and success; and his book recaptures the very feel and pulse of the operations in which he — and the officers and men who fought with and under him — played a part. The painstaking planning, the waiting, the swift pounce at precisely the right moment — all these are here. And here, too, are the times of frustration and tedium, the times when nothing went right. But the dominant note throughout is the note of excitement -of exhilaration almost — at the doing superbly well of a difficult and often dangerous job.

From the cover: “Information is power, and in centuries past sea charts were guarded by both a ship’s navigator and the State, stretched on oak boards or rolled in leather cylindrical quivers, locked away. As the European nations began their territorial acquisition and contest in earnest, the information charts contained of harbour approaches, coastal landmarks and hazards, currents and tides, could give one side or another the advantage.

From the ships of small expeditionary fleets, which carried navigational charts, to the requirements of modern ships involved in combined operations, which need charts to include a whole range of information, John Blake has produced a fascinating, illustrated account of the role that charts have played in planning, preventing, conducting and recording war at sea. The selection not only includes charts depicting major battles and amphibious operations, but those drawn up for tactical and espionage purposes, for coastal defence and the positioning of forts along rivers and at the entrance to harbours.

Chapters run in chronological order, organized according to the overall political scene, but the main focus is on the development of chart making and surveying in relation to changing warfare techniques. Informative captions accompany each chart, setting them in historical context and providing illuminating details about the main protagonists and the chart makers and surveyors themselves. Taken from a range of international maritime archives, they include portolan charts of Spanish acquisitions in the New World; Francis Drake’s attack of Cadiz in 1587, known as ‘the singeing of the King of Spain’s beard’; the Dutch attack on Chatham in 1667 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War; a plan of Chesapeake Bay where British naval forces failed to relieve General Cornwallis during the American War of Independence; William Bligh’s chart of the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801; charts of the Battle of Jutland, one British, one German; and the operational chart drawn up before the D-Day landings at Omaha beach.”Notes: Size: 12" x 11¼". Brown boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 160 pages. Tags: nautical charts history discoveries seamanship geographical discovery exploration military naval photography battles forces warfare travel road ships shipbuilding technology engineering science geography atlases maps cartography navigation maritime P&P: UK 1st £6.75. UK 2nd £6.68. EU Surface £10.36. EU Air £10.35. ROW Surface £10.36. ROW Air £19.22Click Image or Pop Window?Another Republic: 17 European and South American Writers by Edited by Charles Simic & Mark Strand (£19.50)Publisher: Ecco Press — 1976Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0912946288]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Top edge of the text block tanned with light, occasional spotting to the leading edge. Previous owners' inscription to the first blank with a bookplate to the pastedown.Description: From the cover: “Another Republic is a gathering of the best European and South American poets and fabulists superbly trans lated by outstanding British and American writers. Ranging from such acknowledged masters as Henri Michaux and Francis Ponge to such unjustly neglected figures as Johannes Bobrowski and Fernando Pessoa, the anthology is audacious, inclusive, and unlike any other. The selections are ample enough to give the reader a clear idea of each poet’s vision and a comprehensive notion of what con temporary poetry is. Charles Simic and Mark Strand, two of America’s finest poets, have chosen wisely the writers who have most influenced the new generation of American poets, and have avoided making the predictable choices of over-anthologized poets whose reputations, the editors believe, are disproportionate to their influence.

By providing the reader with the foreign sources of what is most vital in American literature today, Simic and Strand have done an invaluable job. This is an anthology in which discoveries will be made, in which there are poems and fables that will astonish and delight. It is also an anthology which, because of its clearly polemical nature, will stimulate controversy. Another Republic will add richly to the fabric of ideas.”Notes: Size: 9½" x 6¼". Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 247 pages. Tags: 20th acrostic alliteration ambiguity anthologies aristotle’s assonance bard biblical canzone century cinquain couplet diction doggerel drama dramatic effects elegy english epic evocative fable ghazal haiku hymns incantatory into irony jintishi limerick lines literary literature lyricist lyrics metaphor meter metonymy metrical modern narrative nursery ode onomatopoeia ottava pantoum patterns poems poetics poetry poets prose prosody qualities regular rhyme rhyming rima rondeau ruba’i satirical scansion sijo simile sonnet speech stanzas symbolism tanka terza traditions translations uses verse versifier villanelle P&P: UK 1st £3.38. UK 2nd £2.92. EU Surface £5.16. EU Air £5.35. ROW Surface £5.16. ROW Air £9.22Around Bristol by Francis Frith (£19.50)Publisher: Frith Book Co — 2001Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. Condition: Fine in Fine DJDescription: These beautiful archive photographs from the world famous Francis Frith Collection offers fascinating insights into the rich diversity of life in Bristol since the Victorian era. 90pp. Index. Advertisements. Size: 4to Crown (9¾" x 7½")P&P: UK 1st £3.38. UK 2nd £2.92. EU Surface £5.16. EU Air £5.35. ROW Surface £5.16. ROW Air £9.22Click Image or Pop Window?Boy Soldiers of the Great War: Their Own Stories for the First Time by Richard van Emden (£19.50)Publisher: Headline — 2005Binding: Hardback [ISBN: 075531302X]Condition: Near Fine — in Near Fine Dustwrapper.Description: Illustrated with black and white photographs. From the cover: “At the outbreak of the First World War, boys as young as thirteen were caught up in an overwhelming tide of patriotism and, in huge numbers, cheerfully joined up for active service. Between 1914 and 1918, the press, recruiting officers and the Government all contributed to the enlistment of thousands of under-age soldiers, in Britain and the Empire, despite an increasing pressure inside and outside Parliament to keep them at home. Many were to serve in the bloodiest battles of the war, such as ex-miner Dick Trafford, who took part in the Battle of Loos, and Frank Lindley, who, seeking to avenge his dead brother, went over the top on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Both were just sixteen. Some boys were unable to stand the strain of trench life and, often through the intervention of their parents, were finally sent home, while others, such as fifteen-year-old Jack Pouchot, won medals for gallantry or became highly efficient officers, such as Acting Captain Philip Lister and Second Lieutenant Reginald Battersby, both of whom were commissioned at fifteen and, a year later, fought in France.”Notes: Size: 9½" x 6¼". Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 340 pages. Tags: 940.48141 gordon-dean frederick mckenzie anderson williams trafford clouting marjorie marshall kerridge laister grigsby lindley francis william collins skelton stevens thomson calvert withers alfred edward norman mcneil albert horace harvey easton donald harold lawton george ernest smiler hodges cecil percy tommy frank deane royce helen maher louth price sims cole dick john wood hal nee vie ham ben P&P: UK 1st £3.92. UK 2nd £2.30. EU Surface £6.46. EU Air £6.60. ROW Surface £6.46. ROW Air £11.72Click Image or Pop Window?Finest Hour by Phil Craig; Tim Clayton; (£19.00)Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton — 1999Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. Signed by the Author.[ISBN: 0340750413]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Gently bruised at the head of the spine and the top corners of the boards with commensurate wear to the dust wrapper.Description: Signed by both authors on the title page - unverified and reflected as such in the lack of premium but the book carries promotional sticker to the upper panel. Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Facsimiles; Maps [1];

From the cover: “Sixty years ago, Europe lay at Hitler’s feet. Britain faced its darkest hour — outnumbered and friendless as the German army continued its advance. Defeat or capitulation seemed inevitable. But instead a legend was bom.

Taking its readers on a breath-taking journey from open lifeboats in Atlantic gales to the cockpits of burning fighter-planes, and through cities devastated by the Blitz, Finest Hour recreates the terror, the tragedy and the triumph of the Battle of Britain.

This powerful account of the events of 1940, is told through the voices, diaries, letters and memoirs of the men and women who lived, loved, fought and died during this terrible yet inspiring year. These searing personal testimonies, taken from over a hundred original interviews, are combined with a fresh and often controversial account of the elaborate political intrigues and betrayals of the period — the Royal Navy assault on the French fleet and America’s secret plans to cope with Britain’s defeat.

From the cover: “This inspired collection of over sixty original paintings and stone carvings by Greg Tricker portrays the human suffering, exultation, compassion and joy of the life of St Francis; with their visionary quality, they present a fresh, contemporary image of St Francis.

The plates, many of which have not been seen before, are complemented by a lively text on the historical background and life of St. Francis by Swedish craftsman Johannes Steuck, and a spirited introduction by writer and philosopher Jeremy Naydler, whose books include Goethe on Science and two volumes on ancient Egyptian religion”Notes: Foreword or introduction by Jeremy Naydler. Size: 13¼" x 9". Grey boards with Salmon titling to the Spine. 143 pages. Tags: tricker naydler 1903998662 francis assisi saint art christian saints mission evangelism religious spiritual religion ministry missions P&P: UK 1st £6.00. UK 2nd £5.95. EU Surface £9.06. EU Air £9.10. ROW Surface £9.06. ROW Air £16.72Click Image or Pop Window?The Oxford Book of Exploration by Robin Hansbury-Tenison (£19.00)Publisher: Oxford University Press — 1993Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0192142089]Condition: Very Good - in Very Good DJ. Very slightly ruffled edges of DJ. Text bright and tight. A nice copy.Description: From the cover: “The anthology does not aim to include every moment of discovery, but to give a flavour of the emotions and motives of those who took part in the major events of exploration. Divided into geographical sections, the book takes us to Asia with Vasco da Gama, Francis Younghusband, and Wilfrid Thesiger, to the Americas with Cortes, Frobisher, and Cabot, to the Pacific with Drake, Banks, and Bougainville, to Africa with Burton, Livingstone, and Stanley, and to the Poles with Peary, Amundsen, and Scott.”Notes: Size: 9½" x 6¼". Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine & Upper Board. 530 pages. Tags: discoveries geography g80.094 910’9d 93-10770 writings explorers ultimate travel writing legendary explorers marco polo columbus magellan unknown continents native inhabitants victorian travel empire source the nile lhasa royal geographical society edmund hillary wally herbert north pole wilfred thesiger borneo expeditions sarawak survival international tribal people P&P: UK 1st £5.25. UK 2nd £5.95. EU Surface £7.76. EU Air £7.85. ROW Surface £7.76. ROW Air £14.22The Wonderful Story of London by Harold Wheeler (£18.50)Publisher: Odhams — UndatedBinding: Hardback Condition: Good. A reasonable reading copy only. Gently bruised at head & tail of spine and corners, boards a little faded, mottled fading to the corners. Light spotting to start and finish. Edges of the textblock lightly spotted.Description: Notes: Size: 10" x 7". Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 512 pages. Tags: london westminster palaces english kings parliaments square mile merchant adventurers st. paul’s charles dickens taverns coffee-houses capital oxford street londoner smithfield tower hill tyburn st. barthoiomew-the-great newgate dead man’s walk amen court elizabeth fry the old bailey st. sepulchre’s church chepe cheapside francis drake thames spanish armada merchantmen great eastern millwall h.m.s. thunderer city london imperial volunteers london division south african war whittington gresham old lady threadneedle street basilica lloyds st. martin’s-in-the-fields jeremy bentham waxworks university college P&P: UK 1st £6.75. UK 2nd £6.68. EU Surface £10.36. EU Air £10.35. ROW Surface £10.36. ROW Air £19.22Click Image or Pop Window?Essex: Living Memory by Frances Clamp (£18.00)Publisher: Frith Book Co. — 2002Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. Signed by the Author.[ISBN: 1859374905]Condition: Very Good - in Very Good DJ. Top corners bruised with matching ruffling of the DJ otherwise a very well presented copy.Description: Illustrated with B&W photographs. Signed by the author on the title page, unverified and reflected as such in the lack of premium. This evocative collection of archive photographs from the world famous Francis Frith collection shows Essex in the mid twentieth century, and depicts the considerable changes it has undergone. 119pp. Index. Bibliography. Size: 4to Crown (9¾" x 7½")Tags: Essex Landmarks 1859374905 P&P: UK 1st £3.92. UK 2nd £2.30. EU Surface £6.46. EU Air £6.60. ROW Surface £6.46. ROW Air £11.72Fisher of Lambeth: A Portrait from Life by William Purcell (£18.00)Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton — 1969Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. Condition: Very Good - in Very Good DJ. Bruised at top corners. Tape marks to endpapers. Internally bright and clean. A good solid copy.Description: Signed by Fisher of Lambeth on the title page, unverified and reflected in the lack of premium. Portraiture frontispiece with further B&W plates. This was the first major works of its kind ever writen during the lifetime of its subject. 310pp. Index. Size: 8vo Royal (9¾" x 6¼") Jacket Designed by Carol Smither. Dust wrapper in protective, removable sleeve.P&P: UK 1st £3.38. UK 2nd £2.92. EU Surface £5.16. EU Air £5.35. ROW Surface £5.16. ROW Air £9.22Press Gang! Crazy World Chronicle by Edited by Leonard Russell (£18.00)Publisher: Hutchinson — 1937Binding: Hardback First Edition. Condition: Very Good. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding. Edges of the textblock lightly spotted. Text complete, clean and tight.Description: The world press summarised with contributions by: Hilaire Belloc; John Betjeman; Cyril Connolly; E. M. Delafield; Francis Iles; Ronald Knox; D. B. Wyndham Lewis; A. G. Macdonell; J. B. Morton; L. A. Pavey; Dilys Powell; Peter Quennell; Edward Shanks; Timothy Shy; Douglas Woodruff;Notes: Illustrated by Nicolas Bentley. Size: 8¼" x 5½". Green boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 300 pages. Tags: anecdotes belloc bentley betjeman connolly cyril delafield dilys douglas edward etc facetiae francis hilaire humor iles john journalism knox leonard lewis macdonell morton nicolas parodies pavey peter powell quennell ronald russell satire shanks shy timothy woodruff wyndham P&P: UK 1st £3.38. UK 2nd £2.92. EU Surface £5.16. EU Air £5.35. ROW Surface £5.16. ROW Air £9.22Click Image or Pop Window?The New Priest-Hood by Joan Bakewell; Nicholas Garnham; (£18.00)Publisher: Allen Lane — 1970Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0713900474]Condition: Good+ — in Good+ Dustwrapper. Gently bruised at the spine ends and corners with commensurate ruffling to the dustwrapper. Pages lightly age-tanned. Text complete, clean and tight.Description: British Television Today.Notes: Jacket designed by Jonathan Miller. Size: 9" x 5¾". Green boards with Silver titling to the Spine. 314 pages. Tags: bbc television begins engineering howard bridgewater neville watson foundation itv norman collins mark chapman-walker sir lew grade billy cotton dennis main wilson ned sherrin barry took drama producers directors arts programmes melvyn bragg john culshaw humphrey burton jonathan miller ken russell information sir geoffrey cox gerald priestland current affairs desmond P&P: UK 1st £3.38. UK 2nd £2.92. EU Surface £5.16. EU Air £5.35. ROW Surface £5.16. ROW Air £9.22Click Image or Pop Window?My Warriors and I: Among the Samburu of Northern Kenya by Roger Stoakley (£17.50)Publisher: Scriptmate Editions — 1998Binding: Paperback Signed by the Author.[ISBN: 0951376691]Condition: Near Fine.Description: Signed by the author on the title page — unverified and reflected as such in the lack of premium. Illustrated with photographs, in colour & black and white. From the cover: “Lturungen was crippled in childhood. A chance meeting brought Roger Stoakley into close contact with this young man and his people—one of the last warrior societies of Africa. Sharing their lifestyle he gained an insight into a remarkable way of life. His moving story of its struggle, bravery and holistic joy in a harsh landscape, is also explicit about a small boy’s circumcision ceremony, and follows new young warriors through the tough Ceremony Of The Arrows. The Samburu people occupy the parched lands of northern Kenya, still the scene of tribal warfare and subject to tight security. Fiercely independent pastoral-ists, they are scornful of Western culture, and have remained relatively unaffected by civilisation. Lturungen came to England for three months while he underwent an operation on his foot. Dressed in warrior clothes, he became a celebrity among local schoolchildren. The author is the former County Librarian of Somerset.”Notes: Size: C Format (8½" x 5¼"). 201 pages. Tags: about african after age aged age-mate age-set alberto amos and archer's arrows biography brother bum buni buni's ceremony children circumcised circumcision customs dancing daughter death drought effects elders eldest families family father father's february first five fourth francis friend from guardians half head her his initiated isaac P&P: UK 1st £2.84. UK 2nd £2.52. EU Surface £3.86. EU Air £4.10. ROW Surface £3.86. ROW Air £6.72Click Image or Pop Window?Association Football in Victorian England: A History of the Game from 1863 to 1900 by Philip Gibbons (£17.00)Publisher: Leicestershire: Upfront Publishing — 2002Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 1844260356]Condition: Very Good. Description: 2nd printing. [First Published: Minverva Press, 2001] Illustrated by way of: Appendices [4]; Black & White Photographs; Tables;

From the cover: “Prior to the 1870s, Association Football tended to be enjoyed as a form of exercise at public schools or a game between friends in a local park. However, with the administrative skills of the likes of Charles Alcock, Francis Marindin, Arthur Kinnaird and William McGregor, the game grew to such an extent that it became an important part in the lives of both players and spectators as the century reached its end.

Our society is divided into three groupings conveniently labelled agrarian, industrial and post-industrial. Each group reflects different values. The agricultural upholds yesterday’s beliefs in stability, changelessness and dependency; the industrial subscribes to economic growth, competitiveness, materialism and independence; whilst the post-industrial group is moving towards self-development, flexibility, protectiveness and inter-dependence as exemplified by the current Green revolution.

As we move towards the second millennium AD, these groups seem to be pulling against each other. We shall all have to decide which we want to belong to, irrespective of age, class, gender and region. But can our warring groupings collaborate to create a better society in the 21st century? Will the powerful business and political interests offer a lead in bringing them together? What can each of us do to make the next century a better place to live in and a hope for the future? These are tomorrow’s questions.

From the cover: “The American Civil War was one of the most significant conflicts of the nineteenth century. Many books have been written about it, but never before has such a comprehensive narrative account been told by those who witnessed events. The Times reports were filed by the paper’s correspondents — Antonio Gallenga, Francis Lawley, Charles Mackay and W. H. Russell — whose preconceptions and prejudices are clarified in Dr Beckett’s wide-ranging and scholarly introduction. The reports themselves are linked by a commentary that serves to place them in context, embracing not only the battles and campaigns but also the social and political background to the conflict. A further dimension is added by the inclusion of over sixty illustrations; many of them previously unpublished contemporary photographs, and maps showing the eastern and western theatres of war.”Notes: Size: 10" x 7". Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. In the The War Correspondents series. 198 pages. Tags: united states history civil war 1861-1865 journalists wars military period 1850-1877 usa warfare defence american 1800 1900 world 1750 media studies 19th century great britain journalism ian beckett 075090044x the correspondents P&P: UK 1st £3.92. UK 2nd £2.30. EU Surface £6.46. EU Air £6.60. ROW Surface £6.46. ROW Air £11.72The Price Guide to English Watercolours 1750 - 1900 by Denis Thomas & Ian Bennett (£12.50)Publisher: Antique Collectors' Club — 1971Binding: Hardback Condition: Good. A reasonable reading copy only. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding, a little soiled and marks. Pages lightly age-tanned with some light soiling in places. Text complete, clean, for the most part, and tight.Description: Notes: Size: 8" x 10". Navy Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine & Upper Board. In the Price Guide series. 338 pages. Tags: abbot albert all-colour and angelo arthur atkins bargain barret barrett blake body-colour bonington brabazon bright british brush burne-tones callow cattermole clarkson claude collectable collecting collectors collier constable copley cotman cox cozens cristall david different downman drawings early elba english fielding finch finest francis frederick fripp george girtin glover goodwin guides P&P: UK 1st £6.75. UK 2nd £6.68. EU Surface £10.36. EU Air £10.35. ROW Surface £10.36. ROW Air £19.22